Lego Bunnie's Outdoor Activities (77047) review: "The perfect starting point"
Jun. 28, 2024If you’re unsure of whether you want to commit to Lego Animal Crossing or if are hunting down a playset for your kids, Lego Bunnie’s Outdoor Activities is ideal. It’s a quick, straightforward build that’s overflowing with charm.
Absolutely adorable
Pretty affordable
Quick and easy to construct
Full of fun nods to the games
Not particularly challenging
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Though one of the smaller Lego Animal Crossing sets that I have put together, I actually think Lego Bunnie’s Outdoor Activities might be my favorite. Not because it’s the best Animal Crossing kit or the most elaborate or interesting, but because it packs a lot of charm into a relatively small package.
Compared to the other sets, Lego Bunnie’s Outdoor Activities has more little bits of detail more often without it ever feeling like there’s too much.
Lego Bunnie’s Outdoor Activities features
Lego Bunnie’s Outdoor Activities is the smallest (and one of the cheapest) kits in the Animal Crossing range at launch. It includes just a single minifigure and a handful of blocky islands that you can arrange howsoever you want… or combine with other kits such asLego Kappn’s Island Boat Tour.
It does have plenty of accessories and extras, though. Iconic elements from the games like diggable fossils, bugs to catch, and tools to use can be found inside the box.
This kit has the benefit of being the simplest build out of all the Lego Animal Crossing sets I’ve made beyond the ‘gift with purchase’ set featuring Maple. The modular little island chunks are smaller in size than the rest of the sets, and it makes it a relatively quick and simple build to make one, move to the next, make that one, and so on. The most complex the build gets is a little mechanical piece to simulate an Animal Crossing villager crossing over some water by way of a pole – it’s built into the side of the water and the pole can be pushed back and forth.
All told, it took 40 minutes or so, and that was with me being lackadaisical.
Part of that simplicity is likely due to the fact that the entire set comes in at a whopping 164 pieces. It is just not a big kit, and won’t give thebest Lego setsa run for their money in terms of size. It’s a startlingly quick build, and even while distracted, I managed to put it together in under an hour.
In some ways, Bunnie’s Outdoor Activities feels like the perfect starting point for anyone looking to determine if the LEGO Animal Crossing line is something they might be interested in. It’s easy to build, has all of the hallmarks of the larger sets like a coin hidden under a boulder and a stick inside the tree in addition to the fact that it’s easily and incredibly customizable. If you like what this set is doing, the ways in which it is designed and built, then you are almost certainly going to like what the rest of the line has to offer.
And because of the aforementioned modularity and speed at putting it together, you can swap the little bases around to create whatever sort of combination you like without much effort. The initial instructions set it in an L shape, but straightening it out so it can sit on the mantle above my fireplace was no trouble at all.
It does seem worth noting that the target audience here is not really me; it’s someone the age of my children. That’s not just me hypothesizing, either. The box notes it’s for 6+, and all of the marketing photos and copy are aimed toward kids that age. Realizing this after the fact, I showed the completed set to my oldest child, and I’m pleased to report that they were ecstatic and immediately asked if they could help build the next one. It certainly helps that they have been playingAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, but I do also think that it speaks to the quality of the Lego Animal Crossing set as well.
✅You want something cheap and cheerfulThis is one of the smaller and simpler kits in the Lego Animal Crossing range, so is worth a look if you’re unsure whether you want to commit.
✅You want extra countryside for your collectionYou can combine all the Lego Animal Crossing sets, and this kit allows you to make your setup look more like an actual island.
❌You’re expecting something intricate or complexWhile there are lots of fun details squirrelled away here, this set will leave you wanting if you’re expecting a challenge.
This review was made using a set purchased by the writer.
This set was constructed in roughly 40 minutes, with particular attention being paid to how easy the instructions were to understand, whether the process was challenging or not, and how the kit compares to others in the range.
If you want more information on our process, see our ‘how we test’ guide.
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Rollin is the US Managing Editor at GamesRadar+. With over 16 years of online journalism experience, Rollin has helped provide coverage of gaming and entertainment for brands like IGN, Inverse, ComicBook.com, and more. While he has approximate knowledge of many things, his work often has a focus on RPGs and animation in addition to franchises like Pokemon and Dragon Age. In his spare time, Rollin likes to import Valkyria Chronicles merch and watch anime.
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